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Satyam acts to address World Bank remarks
News The Indian IT services company wants its former client to withdraw and apologize for recent bribery allegations, amid evaluation of "possible options".
Tags: Services, IT outsourcing, World Bank Group, Group, Statement, IT Services, World Bank, IT services company, malicious attack, Satyam Computer Services
Satyam chairman resigns amid accounting scandal
News B. Ramalinga Raju, who also founded the Indian outsourcing service provider, reveals details of financial irregularities in his resignation letter.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Crisis communications, Accounting, Earning reports/forecasts, Motorola Inc., India, Outsourcing Company, World Bank, Malaysia, Satyam Computer Services
S'pore, Taiwan among world's most competitive
News update Five economies in Asia-Pacific make top 20 list of world's most IT competitive nations in new study conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit.
Tags: Local Government, India, Business Software Alliance, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Broadband, Broadband Penetration, South Korea, Environment, vision
High price may affect True Corp offer
News True Corp shareholders approved the issue of 10 billion new shares to raise 153.3 billion baht (US$4.43 billion) of capital for the telecommunications company.
Tags: Business broadband, Business structures, Investments, Mobile, Thailand, Dividend, World Bank, Stock, pay-TV, EBITDA
World Bank under cyberattack?
News Up to 40 servers have been penetrated in a series of attacks that have been under investigation by the FBI since last year, says report.
Tags: Security, World Bank Group, World Bank, Graham Cluley, Token, Intrusion, Password, bank, China, U.S.
S'pore: Cisco to wire up financial event
News Networking giant will include thousands of Net access points and latest security technologies for a global financial event in Singapore.
Tags: Networking, Mobile/Wireless
Accepting the best defense
Blogs weekly roundup The annual International Monetary Fund-World Bank conference finally kicked off in Singapore this week af...
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security, Employee communications
S'pore firm to power a digital Mexico
News Singapore's Ecquaria Technologies will build an e-government infrastructure for Mexico.
Don't rest easy yet, warns international Y2K watchdog
News An international Year 2000 center has warned that Y2K errors will become especially evident in the days and weeks after the rollover period.
W3C cuts member fees to help developing countries
News Group bring fight against digital divide to Web standards arena, giving discounts to small organizations in developing nations.
Tags: Web services
Western Union signs Philippine mobile payment deals
News Western Union joins hands with two local mobile carriers--Smart Communications and Globe Telecom--to develop and pilot mobile money transfer services in the Philippines.
Tags: Banking, Mobile platforms/communications, Applications and tools
Free software body plans campaign against DRM
News The campaign, due to start when the second draft of GPL 3 is released in June, will target both manufacturers and consumers, says the executive director of the Free Software Foundation.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Open source
Kickbacks: more norm than exception in Malaysia
News Kickbacks for international business deals involving Malaysians are more the norm rather than the exception, says Transparency International vice chairman Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim.
IDC: Vietnamese banks to spur IT spending
News State-owned commercial banks and foreign banks in Vietnam are planning some heavy investments in technology to prepare for market liberalization, says the analyst.
Tags: IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Investments, Banking, Politics
GSMA: Cellular coverage to reach 90 percent
News But industry body says this can be further boosted if governments reform the way they allocate subsidies in network expansion.
Tags: Cellular phones, Legal, Regulations
